Progression of healthcare facilities is underway for land adjacent to Uihlein Football Park, and the county-owned parcel will sell for $500,000.
And it may be tied to an effort to create an indoor sports facility on the football field.
Developer Doug Weas said he can still identify the physical care tenant for the assignment because a lease has been signed.
“It’s all very preliminary,” Weas the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
The progression would be on an 18-acre parcel at 7201 W. Good Hope Road.
Much of the land cannot be developed, Weas said, and some is used as a parking lot for Uihlein Football Park.
Weas said it is competing with Milwaukee Kickers Soccer Club Inc. , the nonprofit that operates the park, to continue offering parking on the lot.
“We are excited about the continued progress in the region,” said Chelsea Metzger, director of marketing and engagement for Milwaukee Kickers, when contacted about the proposed project.
The allocation was revealed through a new county council solution that calls for converting the county’s lease with the Milwaukee Kickers to eliminate their parking rights for the parcel.
A report from this settlement indicates that the land was sold for $500,000. Any sale would require approval from the board of trustees and county manager David Crowley.
The plot housed the Melody Top Theatre for 23 years, which closed in 1986 and was destroyed by a chimney in 1991.
The county acquired the land in 2002 for $118,000, according to city evaluation records.
Meanwhile, the county council in December 2019 voted to take into consideration the imaginable public investment for a year-round sports facility at Uihlein Soccer Park, owned by Milwaukee County and leased to the Milwaukee Kickers.
A full-size indoor box would help the Kickers participate in more tournaments by getting rid of the threat of cancellations due to bad weather, and would also provide a venue for other sports, such as lacrosse, box-hockey and rugby, according to a 2020 report. County Study. The charge was estimated at $3. 1 million.
This work has progressed.
However, the Kickers have “continued to pursue all avenues for the progression of the Indoor Sports Dome and this existing bid to acquire the Melody Top parcel through a developer is the result of that,” the county report said.
In addition, the solution to modify the rental situations of the plot states that “the developer is running with MKSC to lend a hand in the structure of the covered sports facility”.
The Kickers’ Metzger declined to comment on the proposed indoor sports facility.
Weas said he’s not running with the Kickers in an indoor setup lately.
He added that such a transfer is a “possibility along the way (the) savings are difficult. “
The 69-acre Uihlein Football Park features 16 full-size football pitches and an indoor facility comprising 3 smaller indoor pitches.
More than 600,000 more people stopped at the football park year, according to data the Kickers filed with the city’s zoning appeals commission in February 2020.
Milwaukee’s metropolitan domain has about 15,700 children and 5,000 adults playing soccer, according to the city’s filing.
An email can be sent to Tom Daykin at tdaykin@jrn. com and on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
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